Trump Just Picked Up A Major Endorsement From The Sports World

The president of one of the world’s fastest growing organizations in sports made it clear that he is supporting a presidential candidate who supported him when the UFC was struggling to gain attention.

“Donald will get my vote,” Dana White said in a recent TMZ Sports interview.

He was referring, of course, to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump — an early proponent of White’s UFC mixed-martial arts league.

“When we first bought this business,” White recalled, “it was banned in most states. It wasn’t supported by the athletic commissions; and no arenas wanted this thing.”

Trump will bring the endorsement with him to Tuesday’s Republican debate, where he will once again stand center-stage among his primary election rivals. He will also face a surging rival in Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who now leads the crowded GOP field in multiple Iowa polls less than two months before that state’s first-in-the-nation caucus.